Shoveling snow can have a toll on the body, but one unlucky Jersey City employee got more than he bargained for when he received a shock from touching a utility box.

Just before 11 a.m. yesterday, an employee from the Jersey City Incinerator Authority was shoveling snow at a crosswalk on Ocean Avenue between Armstrong and Van Nostrand avenues when he leaned up against a utility pole and received a shock, said a city official.

The unidentified man was taken to the Jersey City Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries, said Jersey City police and fire spokesman Bob McHugh.

McHugh said details of the incident were developing but “this was not an electrocution.”

PSE&G spokeswoman Karen Johnson said the traffic light was owned by Jersey City and not PSE&G.